Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 19
I feel optimistic about my personal future.
American adults' average (mean) response was 6.30 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 364 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-26.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 6.30 |
|---|---|
| Median | 7.00 |
| Standard deviation | 2.57 |
| N | 364 |
| Standard error | 0.135 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 67 out of 132 qualifying items and is at the 49.6 percentile.
Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.
Monthly Trend
Observed Trend
Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-26. The estimated change over that period is -0.254 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.164, 0.657].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.792 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-3.635, 2.050]. This short-window annualized number is provided for reference, but the observed-period change above is the primary trend estimate.
Call:
lm(formula = response_value ~ days_since_start, data = model_data)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-6.3870 -1.3480 0.6347 1.7394 3.8408
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 6.413052 0.243013 26.390 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.002170 0.003957 -0.548 0.584
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 2.572 on 362 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.0008297, Adjusted R-squared: -0.00193
F-statistic: 0.3006 on 1 and 362 DF, p-value: 0.5838